› ERNEST R. NICHOLS, A. M. (University of Iowa).............................. JOHN D. WALTERS, M. S. (K. S. A. C.)...... ............ ..... President Professor of Industrial Art and Designing . Professor of Entomology and Zoology ALEXANDER B. BROWN, (Boston Music School), A. M. (Olivet)......... NELSON S. MAYO, M. S. ALBERT DICKENS, M. S. ......... .......... .... .......... EDMUND B. MCCORMICK, S. B. (Mass. Inst. Tech.), Prof. of Mech. Engineering, Supt. of Shops .......... JACOB LUND, M. S. (K. S. A. C.)................. Superintendent Heat and Power Department MISS JOSEPHINE C. HARPER, A. M. (Bethany), Absent on leave.... Asst. Prof. of Mathematics MISS ALICE RUPP, (Indiana State Normal) Assistant Professor of English CLARENCE L. BARNES, D. V. M. (Cornell University).... Asst. Professor of Veterinary Science JOHN O. HAMILTON, B. S. (Chicago). OSCAR H. HALSTEAD, B. S. (K. S. A. C.) CHARLES E. PAUL, S. B. (Mass. Inst. Tech.) William L. House.. ......... Assistant Professor of Physics Assistant Professor of Mathematics ..Asst. Professor of Mechanical Engineering .Foreman of Carpenter Shop Robert H. Brown, B. M. (Kan. Con. of Music), B. S. (K. S. A. C.)... William Anderson, B. S. (K. S. A. C.)..... Miss Gertrude Barnes. William Baxter. Miss Ada Rice, B. S. (K. S. A. C.). Louis Wabnitz Miss Ina E. Holroyd, B. S. (K. S. A. C.).. ........ Miss Hetty G. Evans, (Mass. Normal Art School) Vernon M. Shoesmith, B. S. (Mich. Agr. Coll.) ...... Assistant in Music Assistant in Mathematics Assistant Librarian Foreman of Greenhouses .Foreman of Machine Shops Assistant in Preparatory Department Miss Eleanor Harris, B. M. (Chicago College of Music).... Ambrose E. Ridenour, B. S. (K. S. A. C.).. Geo. A. Dean, B. S. (K. S. A. C.) Miss Emma J. Short Leslie F. Paull, A. M. (Brown University) ....... Assistant in Drawing .....Assistant in Agriculture Assistant in Music Foreman in Foundry Assistant in Entomology Assistant in Botany Assistant in Preparatory Department Assistant Chemist, Experiment Station Assistant in Chemistry Walter E. Mathewson, B. S. (K. S. A. C.)... Theo. H. Scheffer, A. B. (U. of K.). Miss Kate Tinkey. Earl N. Rodell, B. S. (K. S. A. C.) Miss Mildred Shaw, A. B. (Washburn). Miss Caroline Hopps, Ph. D. (University of Chicago). Miss Helen Thompson, B. S. (K. S. A. C.). Miss Ella Weeks, A. B. (U. of K.) Miss Flora Rose (Farmingham Mass. Normal). Miss Clara Pancake, B. S. (K. S. A. C.).. R. F. Booth, B. S. (Northwestern)... R. J. Kinzer, B. S. Agr. (Iowa State College). Miss C. Jeanette Perry, B. S. (K. S. A. C.). Assistant in Zoology THE INDUSTRIALIST. VOL. 30. Manhattan, Kan., SEPTEMBER 22, 1903. No. 1 "E THE HABIT OF CAREFULNESS. VERYONE knows how a garment, after having been worn a certain time, clings to the shape of the body better than when it was new; there has been a change in the tissue, and this change is a new habit of cohesion. A lock works better after being used some time; at the outset more force was required to overcome certain roughness in the mechanism. The overcoming of their resistance is a phenomenon of habituation. It costs less trouble to fold a paper when it has been folded already; . . . and just so in the nervous system the impressions of outer objects fashion for themselves more and more appropriate paths, and these vital phenomena recur under similar excitements from without, when they have been interrupted a certain time." Thus writes M. Léon Dumont of the effect of habit upon the nervous system; but it is none the less true of the many, many little habits which do not appreciably react upon the physical being, but which nevertheless go to make up the individual, who is in reality only a "bundle of habits." Students are too prone to overlook the little things of life and to think that only the great actions count in the formation of character; but it might be well ever to hold in mind that trifles make character, but character is no trifle. The habit of careful, systematic and absolutely neat work wherever the student may be employed, whether in the workshop, the study, or in his room, goes far to counteract many of the little deficiencies of his work, which may in time be largely overcome by this very trait of painstaking attention to details. The student who attempts to study in a room where his hat and coat are upon the floor or bed, half his books behind his trunk, which perchance stands open, and the other half on his table, where are a confusion of pencils, erasers, ink-bottles, daily papers, magazines, straps, neckties, nails, and the like, will probably find that his mind is in a corresponding state of chaos, and, moreover, when he |